Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years experience with Java 8+ and Spring Framework, 3+ years designing and developing microservices, 3+ years developing scalable, fault-tolerant software, Experience working with Kafka clients, Kafka Connectors, and/or services using Kafka Streams.

Key responsabilities:

Collaborate with a scrum team attending agile ceremonies and providing progress updates on sprint tasks

Oversee Stories on the Scrum Board including requirements analysis, designing solutions, code implementation, and testing automation

Maintain CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, Ansible

Research best practices and new tools functionality to ensure up-to-date knowledge on technologies involved

Job description

Job Description

The Opportunity

This is a role with the Platform Team that provides best practices, technical solutions, and governance of Kafka across the enterprise. We help other technical teams on their developer journey to event-driven awesomeness. We’re looking for a generalist who can write clean code, loves discussing and learning about great technical architecture, swoons at the thought of dissecting our Kafka automation framework, and can self-manage running with exploratory testing of ready tickets. **

In this role you’ll:**

Work with a scrum team, attend agile ceremonies, and keep the team informed regularly on the progress of your tickets in the sprint.
At times, create proof of concepts or investigate new functionality, plugins, or services.
Help groom and estimate Stories for the next sprint.
Take ownership of Stories from the Scrum Board and handle all aspects of that story: analyze requirements, design a solution, implement the code and unit tests, identify test scenarios, automate test scenarios, and deploy to all environments.
Perform code reviews from other engineers to ensure the code quality is maintained.
Configure and maintain the CI/CD pipeline for our deployments to each environment using various tools like: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, Ansible.
Create and monitor alerts to ensure our services are running smoothly and that we proactively catch issues before users are impacted.
Research and keep up to date on best practices and new functionality on our tools and vendors.
Maintain and configure our Confluent Cloud clusters, and the tools we’ve built to simplify this.
Maintain our Kafka Connect clusters and various Kafka Streams microservices in EKS.
Provide support to other engineering teams, ensuring issues are investigated and resolved.

Here’s what you bring:

5+ years experience with Java 8+ and Spring Framework.
3+ years designing and developing microservices.
3+ years developing scalable, fault-tolerant software.
3+ years working with AWS services or the equivalent from another cloud provider.
Experience working with Kafka clients, Kafka Connectors, and/or services using Kafka Streams.
Experience administrating a Kafka Cluster is an asset.
Experience working with Kubernetes.
Experience with Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, CircleCI, Ansible, Jenkins, or similar tools.
Experience with log analysis and alerting tools like Datadog or Honeycomb.
Experience using Jira and Confluence.
Deep prior experience building software in a professional, multi-team, environment.
Ability to learn quickly, and dive deep to understand functionality and complex integrations.
Pride in the work that you do.
Cares about customers and solving problems.

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